“As we explore various means of getting food out of our waste stream, lack of storage is often a major impediment in Boston’s denser neighborhoods,” said Public Works Commissioner, Michael Dennehy.” Project Oscar is a new model that may help Boston and other dense cities collect food scraps in Neighborhoods, where it might not be possible through traditional collection methods.”

The second program, a farmers’ market collection, is a spin-off of last year’s pilot and will begin this Friday, September 12, and continue through the end of the market season. This year, the City will be experimenting at three new markets—Dudley Square, Ashmont-Peabody, and Roslindale. The Department of Public Works will be providing the hauling services and City Soil, a local Boston company, will at the markets to collect your food scraps and answer all your compost-related questions! The program hopes to build off of the success of last year’s pilot program, whichdiverted 6,000 pounds of food scraps from the waste stream.

All of the food scraps collected from the program will go to Rocky Hill Farm and turned into compost.

President Obama’s announcement yesterday of several federalclimate change initiativeswill reduce greenhouse gas emissions nationwide and help prepare the country for the impacts of climate change. As a coastal city, Boston is especially vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Without significant national and international action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Boston and many other cities could face potentially catastrophic impacts within the next 100 years.